PaperMaking from Plants:
Queen Anne's Lace Paper

Queen Anne's Lace is plentiful this year, umbrella flowers waving everywhere.
It's a non native (to the U.S.) biennial wild carrot.

Kingdom Plantae - Plants

SubkingdomTracheobionta -Vascular plants

Superdivision Spermatophyta - Seed plants

Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

Subclass Rosidae

Order Apiales

Family Apiaceae - Carrot family

Genus Daucus L. - wild carrot

Species Daucus carota L. - Queen Anne's lace

I cooked a steel pot full for five to six hours in washing soda. I blendered it and made some sheets. The ones dried overnight inside are green. The ones put outside to drying the sun are duo tone, a dark beige on one side and green on the surface against the felt. I'm reminded of what Gin said about "fugitive" green. I wonder what the process is that makes this happen.....

The paper is sturdy, stiffer, than the paper pulled from the wild carrot I made a couple of months ago. A lighter green than burdock. Not crispy like burdock or dandelion. The green didn't not cook away nor rinse away in the sieve, though there is another fiber (inner vs. outer bast? leaf ? umbrels? ) Though these were tall - 3 to 4 foot-- stalky plants.

I beat the remaining pound plus of fiber for about 8 hours and got a much more pleasing pulp. The stack on the left is the blendered QAL, the stack on the right is the beaten QAL.




i'm following Gin's example (plant documenter extraordinare, access her journal here)Thanks to Gin and the papermaking list folks for reawakening me to the possibilities right outside my door.


Pulp on, people!





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